Staff Sgt. Richard McLain and former Sgt. Donnie Roach were awarded the Purple Heart Medal at a special ceremony conducted at 101st Airborne Division Headquarters Tuesday, March 19, at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Roach and McLain were surrounded by family and friends as they were each presented the award by 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Acting Senior Commander, Brig. Gen. Mark Stammer. Both men were overcome with emotion as they reflected back on their time in service and combat.
"It feels like closure," said Roach, a field artillery Soldier who received the award more than 40 years ago for injuries he sustained in 1969 during the Vietnam War.
McLain, a Signal Support Systems Specialist assigned to the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), said he wanted people to remember that being deployed in a combat environment was about the Soldiers he served with, and that it was the noncommissioned officers job to take care of them.
"It's the people around you that count," he said.
| Date Taken: | 03.19.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 03.21.2013 11:49 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 284745 |
| VIRIN: | 130319-A-LG549-839 |
| Filename: | DOD_100767882 |
| Length: | 00:01:43 |
| Location: | FORT CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY, US |
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